minister plenipotentiary

noun

1. plenipotentiary.

minister plenipotentiary

noun

1. See envoy 1

Word History and Origins

Origin of minister plenipotentiary¹

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

The honorific is reserved for “the President, the Vice President, United States senators and congressmen, Cabinet members, all federal judges, ministers plenipotentiary, ambassadors, and governors,” who get to use the title for life.

From Washington Post

Thus American questions came under my jurisdiction as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the empire.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1814 he was a member of the provisional government by whom the Bourbons were recalled, and he attended the congress of Vienna, with Talleyrand, as minister plenipotentiary.

From Project Gutenberg

Enters Citizen Delacroix, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary from the Republic of France.

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In 1796, he was nominated, by Washington, minister plenipotentiary to the Court of Great Britain.

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